On this day during WW2

Blessent mon cœur d'une langueur monotone.
Je répète!
Blessent mon cœur d'une langueur monotone.

 

In honourable memory of the Polish resistance on the anniversary of the start of the Warsaw Uprising on 1 August 1944.

 

Today is the 83rd anniversary of the first day of the Salerno landings during the Italian campaign (9 September 1943). My Dad served in a transport unit which was part of British X Corps which landed at Salerno as part of US 5th Army. I remember him saying, in one of the few times he spoke about the war, that he had never been as scared in his life as when the ship his unit was on came under shellfire as it entered the Bay of Salerno. He felt as though the entire German army was trying to kill him personally.
"We landed at Salerno, a holiday with pay, Jerry put a band out to see us on our way".

 

Remembering all those who served and died in Operation MARKET GARDEN, which began 82 years ago today.

 

In February 2018, the Municipality of Arnhem’s Archaeology Team conducted an exploratory archaeological trench survey at the Coberco site next to the Arnhem Bridge. Among the findings were remains of the old Rietgracht canal and the timber sawmill. Items belonging to defeated German soldiers—specifically a German helmet and thirteen yards of tracks from a destroyed German tank—were discovered within a bomb crater in the infilled Rietgracht. A fragment of the Rhine Bridge destroyed in 1944, measuring approximately three by four meters, was also recovered; the thick steel had been twisted like aluminum foil by the force of the bombardment. The bomb crater is visible in Royal Air Force aerial photographs dating from the autumn of 1944.

Since October 2019 the fragment of the bridge stands as a monument near the bridge on the south bank of the Rhine.



Courtesy: The Bridge too Far